Mark Cuban has echoed the statements of Draymond Green on the term “owner” in sport. The owner of the Dallas Mavericks even demanded an apology from the Warriors forward.
Green’s testimony comes from last week. After Bob McNair, the owner of Houston Texans in the NFL, said the league couldn’t “let the prison be run by the inmates,”Green responded at Instagram:”First of all, we should stop using the word owner, and perhaps talk of chairmen instead. To belong to someone makes bad associations. It’s the wrong tone and the wrong setting.”
Cuban now said he thought McNair’s statement was “false and ridiculous,”but he didn’t like Green’s reaction:”It’s wrong how he tries to make it into something that isn’t,”Cuban said to ESPN,”He owes the NBA an apology. Pretending to own shares in a company for which you’ve been busting your ass is simply wrong. In every way.”
There is a big difference:”We own shares, not people,”says Cuban,”This is a country with companies from which you can buy shares for money. If you bust your ass, work hard and be lucky, you might have enough money to buy enough shares for a company at some point.”
Cuban went on to say that Green was probably not attending the right business courses at his college in Michigan State and jokingly offered him to pay for courses at his own Alma Mater Indiana.
“If you want to talk about slavery and the comments of some people who don’t respect other individuals, let’s have this conversation,”Cuban clarified,”but don’t try to imply that we have anything to do with slavery just because we have a stake in a team. This is as bad as McNair’s testimony.”
Cuban feels personally slandered:”Don’t ask me, ask anyone who has ever played or worked for me. I’m far from perfect, but this association certainly doesn’t have anyone who knows me.”